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Women, History, and The Weight of Ink with Rachel Kadish

On the Why We Write podcast: The acclaimed author of The Weight of Ink, talks about her novel — a literary page-turner about two women living centuries apart.

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Rachel Kadish is the acclaimed author of The Weight of Ink, winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award, as well as the novels From a Sealed Room and Tolstoy Lied: a Love Story. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, the New England Review and Salon, among others.

In this episode, Kadish, a faculty member in our MFA in Creative Writing program, talks about her most recent novel — the interwoven tale of two women: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history.

Author and Professor Caroline Heller conducts the interview.

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